A plume of grey smoke billowed above Fallujah yesterday as the US militaryclaimed they were making precision air strikes against insurgents in the cityand local doctors said that civilians were being killed and wounded.

The US army said its warplanes had bombed houses because it had intelligenceabout the presence of fighters loyal to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, whom the USsees as the guiding hand behind many attacks on its forces.

Dr Adel Khamis of the Fallujah General Hospital said at least 16 people werekilled, including women and children, and 12 others were wounded. Video filmshowed a Red Crescent ambulance torn apart by an explosion. A hospitalofficial said the driver, a paramedic and five patients had been killed bythe blast.

"The conditions here are miserable - an ambulance was bombed, three housesdestroyed and men and women killed," said Rafayi Hayad al-Esawi, the directorof the hospital. "The American army has no morals."

The US air force has claimed repeatedly since the invasion of Iraq in Marchlast year to be hitting hostile targets identified by US intelligence. Duringthe war it made 50 air strikes to kill senior members of Saddam Hussein'sregime some of which caused many civilian casualties. Only after the war didUS Defence officials admit that all the air strikes had missed their target.On Sunday US helicopters fired rockets into a crowd in Haifa Street incentral Baghdad killing 13 people including an Al-Arabiya televisioncorrespondent killed as he was reporting.

The escalating violence in Iraq is putting in doubt the feasibility ofholding elections in January. The interim government has complete control ofonly a few cities such as Najaf where the opposition has been routed by theUS army using its massive firepower. "Iraq is becoming fragmented likeLebanon with each community having some power," said Ghasan Attiyah, an Iraqicommentator.

The US is now trying to reassert the authority of the interim government bybombing and the use of its air power but this is making the 138,000-strong USarmy in Iraq more unpopular by the day. High civilian casualties also createa backlash and act as a recruiting sergeant for insurgents.

Ironically one of the quietest cities in Iraq is Tikrit, Saddam Hussein'shome town, where the US army agreed with local tribal leaders not to fireback with its artillery if it was mortared.

The BBC carried an extraordinary eyewitness account of this morning's latestLondon terror incident."I got into the ticket hall. I was approached by a policeman and Londonunderground staff asked me if I needed counselling. I was basicallysaying, 'I've just seen a man shot dead'," Mark Whitby told News 24's PhilipHayton just minutes after the incident at Stockwell tube station in southLondon.

"As he got on to the train I looked at his face. He looked sort of left andright, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, a cornered fox. Helooked absolutely petrified and then as I say he sort of tripped, but theywere hotly pursuing him.

"They couldn't have been no more than two or three feet behind him at thistime and he half tripped and was half pushed to the floor and the policemannearest to me had a black automatic pistol in his left hand. He held it downto the guy and unloaded five shots into him."

Sky News cut from its Stockwell coverage just after 11am to a pre-plannedstudio debate hosted by Kay Burley with a Muslim audience in Birmingham,running a breaking newsflash at the bottom of the screen, as other channelsshowed rolling news coverage of the latest London terrorism story.

The BBC's rolling news channel began covering the Stockwell incident at10.40am and BBC1 switched to a simulcast of News 24 at 10.57am, initially forhalf an hour.

While BBC and ITV had traffic camera footage of Stockwell station Sky Newswas relying on a graphic of the area in question, phone interviews witheyewitnesses and correspondent Martin Brunt outside Scotland Yard.

ITV News' Alastair Stewart cut from his regular morning show at 10.12am to goa journalist in the field, saying there were reports of a security alert atStockwell.

This was followed immediately by an eyewitness account from a reporter on thescene of the incident in south London.

For the BBC, transport correspondent Tom Symonds and a film crew were thefirst to arrive at Stockwell, and found Mr Whitby.

Sky News' correspondent Martin Popplewell filed phone reports from Stockwelland the broadcaster carried its first footage from the scene just beforemidday.

Sky News ran its first breaking news flash on the incident at 10.36am. Thechannel later moved its Birmingham debate to its Sky News Active red buttonservice to focus fully on the Stockwell story.

"I know what you're thinkingYou wonder why I chose herOut of all the ladies in the worldThat's just a first impressionWhat good's a first impressionIf you knew her like I do,It would change your point of view-

If you could see her thru my eyes,You wouldn't wonder at all.If you could see her thru my eyes,I guarantee you would fall(Like I did)When we're in public together,I hear society moan,But if they could see her thru my eyes,Maybe they'd leave us alone.

How can I speak of her virtues?I don't know where to begin.She's clever, she's smart, she reads music,She doesn't smoke or drink gin.(Like I do)Yet when we're walking together,They sneer if I'm holding her hand,But if they could see her thru my eyes,Maybe they'd all understand...

[Spoken]Ladies and Gentlemen, I ask you,Is there a crime to fall in love?Can one ever choose where our heats lead us?

[Sung]Oh, I understand your objection,I grant my problem's not small;But if you could see her thru my eyes,She isn't a meeskite at all!"

> To jest jakas parodia,nie moge uwierzyc w to co czytam. W sumie tego lewaka,co> zginal to mi nie zal,w koncu to lewactwo chcialo ucywilizowac muzulmanow.Ironi> a> losu, ale to....>> Dutch authorities have destroyed a piece of public art meant to memorialize> slain filmmaker Theo van Gogh because it included the phrase "Thou shalt notki> ll.">> According to Radio Netherlands, the Volkskrant newspaper reported a Dutchartis> t> in Rotterdam wanted to express his emotions over the murder of van Gogh, whowa> s> allegedly killed by a Muslim extremist last week due to his criticism ofIslam.>> The artist's painting on a wall in his neighborhood included an ascendingangel> with the date and the familiar commandment from the Old Testament inscribed.> Authorities were not impressed.>> "In the year 2004, this commandment is considered too sensitive in our> multicultural society," wrote the Volkskrant.>> Officials ordered the immediate removal of the artwork from the public space,> Radio Netherlands reported.>> According to the newspaper, when a local television team showed up, the police> ordered the crew to stop filming the painting and hand over the film. Areporte> r> who tried to stop the destruction of the painting was jailed for three hours.>> One city lawmaker quoted in the paper described the incident as "a fantastic> example of the madness in which we live.">

Temat: Dekalog Emigranta
Musisz nas znac, jak jestes w Oz!www.abc.net.au/btn/australians/packer.htmKerry Packer is the richest man in Australia. His personal wealth is estimated in the billions of dollars. It's the media industry that has made Kerry Packer both wealthy and powerful. He's the owner of the Channel Nine television network and has interests in Pay TV.He also owns 60% of all magazines sold in Australia including Belle, She, Wheels, HQ, Bulletin, Woman's Day and the Womens' Weekly. It was the Women's Weekly which really started the Packer media empire.Set up by Kerry's father, Sir Frank Packer in 1933, the magazine was hugely successful and it allowed Sir Frank to expand his business beginning with newspapers like Sydney's Daily Telegraph.www.time.com/time/digital/cyberelite/19.htmlRUPERT MURDOCH Chairman and CEO, News Corp. (last year No. 2)NET WORTH $5.3 billion AGE 67ADDRESS 1 Virginia Street, London E1 9XY, U.K.In the past 40 years, Murdoch has created the very model of the modern media mogul. He started in the '50s with a small daily newspaper in Australia's hinterlands, and today leads one of the world's largest media empires. From books (HarperCollins) to television (Fox Broadcasting) and newspapers (New York Post, Times of London) to movies (20th Century Fox), Murdoch has been among the first to realize that the secret to success in modern media is control of both content and distribution.1998 POWER PLAY Murdoch's LineOne service is gunning to become the AOL of Europe. This year it added cutting-edge technology from Autonomy Agentware, which alerts members when articles of interest are posted and helps advertisers target consumers. The piece of Primestar Murdoch picked up this year also gives News Corp. an important foothold in the American satellite-broadcast market.PLACE YOUR BETS With 40% of News Corp.'s voting shares in the hands of the Murdoch clan, some of the most interesting betting concerns who will carry on the family business after Rupert (the smart money is on his 26-year-old heir apparent, son Lachlan). That said, American shares of News Corp. are still up 70% in the past year. Look out for a public offering of shares in the Fox Group, which includes all of News Corp.'s film, television and sports concerns. It is expected before the end of the year.

Temat: Londyn-za co go zastrzelono
A tu calosc :The BBC carried an extraordinary eyewitness account of this morning's latestLondon terror incident."I got into the ticket hall. I was approached by a policeman and Londonunderground staff asked me if I needed counselling. I was basicallysaying, 'I've just seen a man shot dead'," Mark Whitby told News 24's PhilipHayton just minutes after the incident at Stockwell tube station in southLondon.

"As he got on to the train I looked at his face. He looked sort of left andright, but he basically looked like a cornered rabbit, a cornered fox. Helooked absolutely petrified and then as I say he sort of tripped, but theywere hotly pursuing him.

"They couldn't have been no more than two or three feet behind him at thistime and he half tripped and was half pushed to the floor and the policemannearest to me had a black automatic pistol in his left hand. He held it downto the guy and unloaded five shots into him."

Sky News cut from its Stockwell coverage just after 11am to a pre-plannedstudio debate hosted by Kay Burley with a Muslim audience in Birmingham,running a breaking newsflash at the bottom of the screen, as other channelsshowed rolling news coverage of the latest London terrorism story.

The BBC's rolling news channel began covering the Stockwell incident at10.40am and BBC1 switched to a simulcast of News 24 at 10.57am, initially forhalf an hour.

While BBC and ITV had traffic camera footage of Stockwell station Sky Newswas relying on a graphic of the area in question, phone interviews witheyewitnesses and correspondent Martin Brunt outside Scotland Yard.

ITV News' Alastair Stewart cut from his regular morning show at 10.12am to goa journalist in the field, saying there were reports of a security alert atStockwell.

This was followed immediately by an eyewitness account from a reporter on thescene of the incident in south London.

For the BBC, transport correspondent Tom Symonds and a film crew were thefirst to arrive at Stockwell, and found Mr Whitby.

Sky News' correspondent Martin Popplewell filed phone reports from Stockwelland the broadcaster carried its first footage from the scene just beforemidday.

Sky News ran its first breaking news flash on the incident at 10.36am. Thechannel later moved its Birmingham debate to its Sky News Active red buttonservice to focus fully on the Stockwell story.

i wyprodukowac zdanie> brzmiace: Aibus przegral konkurencje i podal do sadu rzad Indii.> SZLAKBAUM CZAS JUZ WYDOROSLEC.> on the other hand.... who cares or as they say in the hood who gives a flyingf uck.

Met this girl in the bar last night the last two drinks made me feel alrightThrew the juke-box another dime said:"Hey,girl now it's dancin' time"Moved on down to the dancing floorShe moved her hips and she started singin' Nanananananana

She was cute and I liked her face Told her I knew a better placeShe spun around and she flashed her thighsShe stared at me with her big blueeyesI took her home in my ChevroletShe put a hand on my knee still singin' Nanananananana

Wondering what she'd like to doShe said:"Baby,that's up to you mmm,if you know what I mean"She took my hand as I locked the doorMade our way to the second floor Nanananananana

Never felt just like that before could fell my pulse beating more and more"Feeling good and I'm glad you came I'd really like you to know my name"A glass of whisky should break the iceShe drank it up but she kept on singin' Nanananananana

I asked her if she would stay the night Promised her she would be allrightTold her I've got a waterbed She laughed at me and her face turned redShe took my hand and she pulled me downbeneath the table we both went singin' Nanananananana

"What shall we Christians do with this rejected and condemned people, the Jews?Since they live among us, we dare not tolerate their conduct, now that we areaware of their lying and reviling and blaspheming. If we do, we become sharersin their lies, cursing and blaspemy. Thus we cannot extinguish the unquenchablefire of divine wrath, of which the prophets speak, nor can we convert the Jews.With prayer and the fear of God we must pratice a sharp mercy to see whether wemight save at least a few from the glowing flames. We dare not avengeourselves. Vengenance a thousand times worse than we could wish them alreadyhas them by the throat. I shall give you my sincere advice:

First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover withdirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone orcinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, sothat God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowinglytolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of hisChristians. For whatever we tolerated in the past unknowingly - and I myselfwas unaware of it - will be pardoned by God. But if we, now that we areinformed, were to protect and shield such a house for the Jews, existing rightbefore our very nose, in which they lie about, blaspheme, curse, vilify, anddefame Christ and us (as was heard above), it would be the same as if we weredoing all this and even worse ourselves, as we very well know.

Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursuein them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodgedunder a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them thatthey are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living inexile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.

Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in whichsuch idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them.(remainder omitted)

Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain ofloss of life and limb. For they have justly forfeited the right to such anoffice by holding the poor Jews captive with the saying of Moses (Deuternomy 17[:10 ff.]) in which he commands them to obey their teachers on penalty ofdeath, although Moses clearly adds: "what they teach you in accord with the lawof the Lord." Thoses villains ignore that. They wantonly employ the poorpeople's obedience contrary to the law of the Lord and infuse them with thispoison, cursing, and blasphemy. In the same way the pope also held us captivewith the declaration in Matthew 16 {:18], "You are Peter," etc, inducing us tobelieve all the lies and deceptions that issued from his devilish mind. He didnot teach in accord with the word of God, and therefore he forfeited the righto teach.

Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely forthe Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are notlords, officials, tradesmen, or the like. Let they stay at home. (...remainderomitted).

Sixth, I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash andtreasure of silver and gold be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping.The reason for such a measure is that, as said above, they have no other meansof earning a livelihood than usury, and by it they have stolen and robbed fromus all they possess. Such money should now be used in no other way than thefollowing: Whenever a Jew is sincerely converted, he should be handed onehundred, two hundred, or three hundred florins, as personal circumstances maysuggest. With this he could set himself up in some occupation for the supportof his poor wife and children, and the maintenance of the old or feeble. Forsuch evil gains are cursed if they are not put to use with God's blessing in agood and worthy cause.

Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or aspindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earntheir bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam(Gen 3[:19]}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toilin the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their timebehind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boastingblasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No,one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants."

“One story is of a young girl who is 16 years old,” he says of one of thetestimonies he video taped recently, “She stayed for three days with thebodies of her family who were killed in their home. When the soldiers enteredshe was in her home with her father, mother, 12 year-old brother and twosisters. She watched the soldiers enter and shoot her mother and fatherdirectly, without saying anything.”

The girl managed to hide behind the refrigerator with her brother andwitnessed the war crimes first-hand.

“They beat her two sisters, then shot them in the head,” he said. After thisher brother was enraged and ran at the soldiers while shouting at them, sothey shot him dead.

“She continued hiding after the soldiers left and stayed with her sistersbecause they were bleeding, but still alive. She was too afraid to call forhelp because she feared the soldiers would come back and kill her as well. Shestayed for three days, with no water and no food. Eventually one of theAmerican snipers saw her and took her to the hospital,” he added beforereminding me again that he had all of her testimony documented on film.**************************************************************************************

“During the second week of the siege they entered and announced that all thefamilies have to leave their homes and meet at an intersection in the streetwhile carrying a white flag. They gave them 72 hours to leave and after thatthey would be considered an enemy,” he says.

“We documented this story with video-a family of 12, including a relative andhis oldest child who was 7 years old. They heard this instruction, so theyleft with all their food and money they could carry, and white flags. Whenthey reached the intersection where the families were accumulating, they heardsomeone shouting ‘Now!’ in English, and shooting started everywhere.”

The family was all carrying white flags, as instructed, according to the youngman who gave his testimony. Yet he watched his mother and father shot bysnipers-his mother in the head and his father shot in the heart. His two auntswere shot, then his brother was shot in the neck. The man stated that when heraised himself from the ground to shout for help, he was shot in the side.

“After some hours he raised his arm for help and they shot his arm,” continuesthe doctor, “So after awhile he raised his hand and they shot his hand.”

A six year-old boy of the family was standing over the bodies of his parents,crying, and he too was then shot.

Israel's ambassador at the UN, Dan Gilerman, will send a letter to UN Director-General Kofi Annan tomorrow, demanding the dismissal of Peter Hansen ascommissioner-general of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Work Agency).

The letter will communicate Israel's severe protest against Hamas using UNambulances to smuggle arms and terrorists through the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA yesterday denied Israel's allegations.

Israeli representatives intend to screen a short film with aerial photos takenfrom an unmanned reconnaissance plane that provides proof of the use of UNambulances for transporting Qassam rockets.

Last Wednesday the Israel Defense Forces documented two men loading a Qassamrocket onto a van bearing a large UN logo. The photographed images, taken froman unmanned plane in the Jabalya refugee camp, were broadcast on networktelevision on Friday night. After the rocket was loaded, the vehicle left thespot.

Hansen told Haaretz that it is easy to prove that the suspicious-looking objectshown

is a stretcher. According to Hansen, the image broadcast on television showstwo men approaching two ambulances, one of whom is carrying an object thatcould not weigh more than a few kilos. Even a Goliath could not have run,Hansen said, if he were carrying a heavy Qassam rocket. He said that he hadlearned from a simple Google search that a Qassam rocket is 1.80 meters longand weighs 50 kilos. The photographic image, on the other hand, Hansenexplained, reveals an object 5 cm wide, while the Qassam has a diameter of 17cm. A piece of cloth, he added, was clearly visible in the photo, which provesit was an ambulance stretcher.

Hansen also said that he is concerned that the IDF's accusations might lead toincitement, since soldiers who give credence to the IDF statement, may becomesuspicious of every ambulance that arrives at a checkpoint, putting UNRWA crewsin grave danger.

UN ambulances have been used before to transport armed Palestinians andweapons. Last May similar scenes were documented by the IDF in Rafah and in theZeitoun neighborhood in Gaza.

Gilerman has conveyed information about the film to Kofi Annan, and to hisenvoy in the region, Terje Larsen, demanding explanations.

Several months ago Israel filed a complaint in New York against UNRWA personnelfor ignoring the use of UN ambulances by Hamas. The complaint never earned asignificant response from the director-general. This is the first time thatIsrael is directly demanding the removal of Hansen, a Swedish diplomat, beremoved from the UNRWA post.

Several months ago, Israel complained that Hansen had submitted exaggeratedreports about the number of houses demolished by the IDF in Rafah. Recently,Hansen said that he was forced to send foreign workers employed by UNRWA out ofthe Gaza strip, because Israel had been harassing them. An inquiry laterrevealed that the decision to remove the workers had been motivated by fear ofviolence at the hands of Palestinian elements.

Israel also complained to Annan after an article by Hansen in the InternationalHerald Tribune denounced Israel in harsh language.

Bush's gesture politics suggest a man seriously worried about his career

Mark LawsonSaturday December 6, 2003The Guardian

The 1980s movie The Ploughman's Lunch took its title from an early example ofwhat we have now come to know as spin. Ian McEwan's script took its centralimage from the fact that the bread-and-cheese snack that claimed to linkyuppies in pubs to their ancestors who toiled on the soil was an invention ofthe contemporary advertising and catering trades. In Richard Eyre's film, thisfraudulent food became a metaphor for political lying and pretence at the timeof the Falklands war.If anyone makes a similar film about the attack on Iraq, the title would nowhave to be The Plastic Turkey. In a revelation certain to be taught at schoolsof democracy and journalism for years to come, it has been revealed that theapparently appetising turkey that President Bush carried towards beaming troopslast week in Baghdad had been genetically modified to a degree that would leadeven the most profit-hungry farmers to protest. The bird was the kind of modelused by butchers and Hollywood set-dressers.

Following this disclosure, the president is, unlike his political prop,stuffed: with a gap in the storyboards for his re-election commercials. Apicture intended to say to viewers "The Eagle Has Landed", in fact spelledout: "This Bird Never Flew."

The fakery went further. The hoax roast in the president's hands cannot even beclaimed as a symbolic stand-in for the steaming birds that were actuallyserved. Reports say that the US troops were given airline-style meals of pre-packaged meat. And the pretend chef had flown to Baghdad in an Air Force Onethat filed a fake flight-plan, pretending to be a small corporate jet.

The latter act - though embarrassing for a politician who promised to end theeasy lying of the Clinton years - can probably just about be excused assecurity. But the affair of the plastic turkey can only be attributed toinsecurity.

Although the image of George Bush, until recently, was of a man who could dowhatever he wanted in both America and the world, recent events have suggesteda man seriously worried about both his image and his career. The presidentseems to have entered a phase of gesture politics, and the gestures are thoseof a man who, while still swimming vigorously, has suddenly come to accept thepossibility of drowning.

Apart from risking his life to deliver a stunt turkey to the Baghdad mess, thepresident is now set to revive the US space programme: it's rumoured that Nasawill, this month, announce new missions to the moon. And a man accused ofimperial arrogance has even made a significant concession to the rivalpowerbase of Europe by abandoning protectionist steel tariffs. It can be arguedthat this is a cosmetic move - because Bush had already lost the votes of thesteel states in the US - but the move indicates a politician much less happythan he once was to be seen as isolationist.

Even during an American election cycle, the apparent decision to aim for themoon is surprising. The original lunar programme grew out of the bipolarpolitical world of the cold war. Kennedy was only interested in landing in theSea of Tranquillity because of the fear that the Russians might splash downfirst. Now, with only one superpower, it will be not a space race but a spacelap-of-honour or training run for America.

It's a measure of Bush's reputation that environmentalists have already accusedhim of planning to rob the moon of mineral deposits or light. But there'sanother possibility. A pattern is emerging in which the Bush White House - likea child hiding its face at a bad memory - seeks to replace a negative imagewith a positive one.

The original Gulf war photo-op planned for use in the 2004 election campaignwas the commander-in-chief landing a jet on an aircraft carrier that flew thebanner: Mission Accomplished. Now that Mission Impossible might be a morefitting message to fly from US ships, a substitute image was needed for themilitaristic bits of the ads. This was provided by Dubya as carver-in-chief onThanksgiving Day. The mooted new moonshots are calculated to wipe from thecollective memory the images of the Challenger disaster.

If the president were to use the plastic turkey of Baghdad in commercials now,his opponents would make a real meal of it, so Bush 2004 needs some other photo-ops. Perhaps the new Nasa plans indicate that he intends to disguise Air ForceOne as a rocket and stage a photo-shoot on the moon.

Whatever the details, the message is clear. Though he still lacks anything aspesky as a plausible Democrat opponent, Dubya is starting to fear that hisadministration may become the second one-term turkey served up by the Bushdynasty.

> The Weapons of American Terrorism:> Torture>> From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower> by William Blum:>> The CIA has co-existed with torture for decades. Sleeping with friendly> torturers has been a closely guarded secret at the Agency, and for thatreason> the actual painful details have been difficult to come by over the years. But> here is some of the record that has made its way to the light of day:>> Greece>> During the late 1940s, the CIA was instrumental in the creation of a new> internal security agency, KYP. Before long, KYP was carrying out all the> endearing practices of secret police everywhere, including systematictorture.> It was most active during the military junta, 1967-74, a period of routine> horrific torture. Amnesty International later reported that "American policyon>> the torture question as expressed in official statements and officialtestimony>> has been to deny it where possible and minimize it where denial was not> possible. This policy flowed naturally from general support for the military> regime.">> James Becket, an American attorney sent to Greece by Amnesty, wrote in 1969> that some torturers told prisoners that some of their equipment had come asUS> military aid. One item was a special "thick white double cable" whip that> was "scientific, making their work easier"; another was the head screw, known> as an 'iron wreath', which was progressively tightened around the head orears.>>> American support, reported Becket, was vital to the torturers:>> Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the little speech given by Inspector> Basil Lambrou, who sits behind his desk which displays the red, white, andblue>> clasped-hand symbol of American aid. He tries to show the prisoner theabsolute>> futility of resistance:>> "You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world is> divided in two. There are the communists on that side and on this side thefree>> world. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans.> Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATO> is the U.S. You can't fight us, we are Americans.">> Iran>> The notorious Iranian security service, SAVAK, which employed torture> routinely, was created under the guidance of the CIA and Israel in the 1950s.> According to a former CIA analyst on Iran, Jesse J. Leaf, SAVAK wasinstructed> in torture techniques by the Agency.>> After the 1979 revolution, the Iranians found CIA film made for SAVAK on howto>> torture women.>> Germany>> In the 1950s, in Munich, the CIA tortured suspected infiltrators of Soviet> emigre organizations in Western Europe, which the Agency was using in anti-> Soviet operations. Amongst the techniques employed by the CIA were such> esoteric torture methods as applying turpentine to a man's testicles orsealing>> someone in a room and playing Indonesian music at deafening levels until he> cracked. This information probably surfaced because it's weird-sounding tothe> point of being amusing; there was likely more of regular torture methods not> fit for conversation.>> Vietnam>> The Green Berets taught its members who were slated for duty in Vietnam inthe> 1960s how to use torture as part of an interrogation.>> The notorious Operation Phoenix, set up by the CIA to wipe out the Vietcong> infrastructure, subjected suspects to torture such as:>> electric shock to the genitals of both men and women> insertion into the ear of a six-inch dowel, which was tapped through thebrain> until the victim died>>> suspects were also thrown out of airborne helicopters to persuade the more> important suspects to talk, although this should probably be categorized as> murder of the ones thrown out, and a form of torture for those not.> In violation of the Geneva Convention, the US turned prisoners over to their> South Vietnamese allies in full knowledge that they would be tortured,American>> military personnel often being present during the torture.>> Bolivia>> In 1967, anti-Castro Cubans, working with the CIA to find Che Guevara, set up> houses of interrogation where Bolivians suspected of aiding Che's guerrilla> army were brought for questioning and sometimes tortured. When the Bolivian> interior minister learned of the torture, he was furious and demanded thatthe> CIA put a stop to it.>> Po co to przepisujesz glupi lajkoniku?

From Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpowerby William Blum:

The CIA has co-existed with torture for decades. Sleeping with friendlytorturers has been a closely guarded secret at the Agency, and for that reasonthe actual painful details have been difficult to come by over the years. Buthere is some of the record that has made its way to the light of day:

Greece

During the late 1940s, the CIA was instrumental in the creation of a newinternal security agency, KYP. Before long, KYP was carrying out all theendearing practices of secret police everywhere, including systematic torture.It was most active during the military junta, 1967-74, a period of routinehorrific torture. Amnesty International later reported that "American policy onthe torture question as expressed in official statements and official testimonyhas been to deny it where possible and minimize it where denial was notpossible. This policy flowed naturally from general support for the militaryregime."

James Becket, an American attorney sent to Greece by Amnesty, wrote in 1969that some torturers told prisoners that some of their equipment had come as USmilitary aid. One item was a special "thick white double cable" whip thatwas "scientific, making their work easier"; another was the head screw, knownas an 'iron wreath', which was progressively tightened around the head or ears.

American support, reported Becket, was vital to the torturers:

Hundreds of prisoners have listened to the little speech given by InspectorBasil Lambrou, who sits behind his desk which displays the red, white, and blueclasped-hand symbol of American aid. He tries to show the prisoner the absolutefutility of resistance:

"You make yourself ridiculous by thinking you can do anything. The world isdivided in two. There are the communists on that side and on this side the freeworld. The Russians and the Americans, no one else. What are we? Americans.Behind me there is the government, behind the government is NATO, behind NATOis the U.S. You can't fight us, we are Americans."

Iran

The notorious Iranian security service, SAVAK, which employed tortureroutinely, was created under the guidance of the CIA and Israel in the 1950s.According to a former CIA analyst on Iran, Jesse J. Leaf, SAVAK was instructedin torture techniques by the Agency.

After the 1979 revolution, the Iranians found CIA film made for SAVAK on how totorture women.

Germany

In the 1950s, in Munich, the CIA tortured suspected infiltrators of Sovietemigre organizations in Western Europe, which the Agency was using in anti-Soviet operations. Amongst the techniques employed by the CIA were suchesoteric torture methods as applying turpentine to a man's testicles or sealingsomeone in a room and playing Indonesian music at deafening levels until hecracked. This information probably surfaced because it's weird-sounding to thepoint of being amusing; there was likely more of regular torture methods notfit for conversation.

Vietnam

The Green Berets taught its members who were slated for duty in Vietnam in the1960s how to use torture as part of an interrogation.

The notorious Operation Phoenix, set up by the CIA to wipe out the Vietconginfrastructure, subjected suspects to torture such as:

electric shock to the genitals of both men and womeninsertion into the ear of a six-inch dowel, which was tapped through the brainuntil the victim died

suspects were also thrown out of airborne helicopters to persuade the moreimportant suspects to talk, although this should probably be categorized asmurder of the ones thrown out, and a form of torture for those not.In violation of the Geneva Convention, the US turned prisoners over to theirSouth Vietnamese allies in full knowledge that they would be tortured, Americanmilitary personnel often being present during the torture.

Bolivia

In 1967, anti-Castro Cubans, working with the CIA to find Che Guevara, set uphouses of interrogation where Bolivians suspected of aiding Che's guerrillaarmy were brought for questioning and sometimes tortured. When the Bolivianinterior minister learned of the torture, he was furious and demanded that theCIA put a stop to it.

2) Barak’s proposals at Camp David were far from the minimum necessary to makepeace with the Palestinian people and the whole Arab world: Palestiniansovereignty over East Jerusalem, and especially the compound of the holy mosques(Haram al-Sharif).

3) Factual background: the November 29, 1947, UN partition resolution gave theJewish state 55% and the Arab state 45% of Palestine. In the ensuing war[started by the Arabs], we conquered half of the territory allotted to the Arabstate. Thus the “Green Line” came about, leaving 78% of the country in our hands.

4) Barak appears to be asking for only 10% of the occupied territories. Inreality, it’s closer to 30%, taking into account the territories he wants toannex in the Jerusalem area and place under his “security control” in the Jordanvalley.

5) Before the end of the 5-years interim period (May 1998), the IDF had towithdraw from all the West Bank and the Gaza Strip except “specified militarylocations”, settlements and Jerusalem. Barak refuses to do this even at thislate date.

tylko w ocenie gush-shalom. Tymczasem, jak podtrzymywac porozumienie, jezeliliczba zamachow terrorystycznych nie maleje, a wlasnie ROSNIE? Zobacz tu:www.iris.org.il/terrcht2.htm7) Palestinians point to the killing of 12-years old Muhammad al-Dira in thearms of his father and the brain-killing bullets used by Israel army snipersagainst stone-throwing children.

akurat to jest swietny przypadek oszustwa Palestynczykow. To jest sfingowanemordestwo, Przeczytaj sobie tutaj:www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=31363ostatni akapit z tego tekstu:"The badly wounded corpse of a child was shown by doctors at the Shifa hospitalin Gaza," says Huber. "[That] child was dead, but he is not the child seen inthe famous TV newscast."

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